Broward County SO Fired Two More Over Parkland Response

By Tom Knighton

The courts may have ruled that police have no duty to protect citizens, but that doesn’t mean departments–particularly sheriff’s departments where the boss is elected and thus answers to the public–can’t feel a good bit different about that. After all, I’ve known a lot of police officers in my day and it’s always been kind of rare to find one who didn’t want to protect others. Most just recognize that there are a lot of instances when you can’t.

Where the line tends to get drawn is when an officer apparently can but fails to act in accordance with policy and people get killed.

Former Broward County Deputy Scot Peterson was fired, thus ending his cushy retirement pension, for his failure to act and is now facing criminal charges.

He was far from the only one to find their head on the chopping block, it seems.

South Florida investigators said Wednesday two more deputies have lost their jobs over the response to the 2018 shooting attack at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland.

In briefing reporters on an internal report, Broward County Sheriff Gregory Tony said deputies Edward Eason and Josh Stambaugh were fired Tuesday for “neglect of duty.” He did …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms